On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx>: >> Of course, but there are experts in C and shell around, not so many >> python experts. So if somebody sneaks in a python program that makes >> use of features specific to python 2.7, I doubt anybody would notice. > > I would. And are you going to be around to spot them? It seems my patches for git-remote-hg slipped by your watch, because it seems they use stuff specific to python 2.7. >> And if they did, I doubt that would be reason enough for rejection, >> supposing that porting to 2.6 would be difficult enough. > > In cases like that, backporting is usually pretty easy. Been there, done that. Exactly. Why would you reject something you can fix easily? -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html